Global Intellectual Property Protection and New Constitutionalism

Jonathan Griffiths is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary University of London. His research interests lie predominantly in copyright law (particularly European copyright law) and in the relationship between intellectual property law and fundamental rights. He is the editor of the United Kingdom chapter of the leading international treatise on International Copyright Law & Practice (ed. Bently) and is a member of the editorial andadvisory boards of the Journal of Media Law, the Media & Arts Law Review, and the Nottingham Law Journal. He is a member of the European Copyright Society, a group of scholars founded with the aim of creating a platform for critical and independent scholarly thinking on European copyright law.Tuomas Mylly is Professor of Commercial Law at Faculty of Law, University of Turku (Finland) and director of the IPR University Center. He has previously held a chair of European Economic Law. His research interests lie in European and global intellectual property, competition and constitutional law, and their interactions. His current research is focused on the historical evolution of international and European intellectual property protection and constitutional and other aspects of IPprotection.